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It's only a short period of the day, 4-9, where there are constraints on these hot days. Other times of day there's ample capacity. And car charging is a great
by epistasis 4y ago
It's only a short period of the day, 4-9, where there are constraints on these hot days. Other times of day there's ample capacity.
And car charging is a great sort of grid demand, because it's easily shiftable to other time periods. Most cars are parked nearly all the time.
And as car companies become more enlightened and allow vehicle to grid, scenarios like this will vanish. It wouldn't take a large fraction of cars in a V2G program to eliminate the problems here, especially since cars are so close to the load, which also helps with transmission and distribution. 1 million cars would be 5-10GW, completely eliminating any worries for this week.
And this is without the many GW of grid storage that is due to go online, but temporarily delayed because of COVID pandemic related parts delays.